Named for the Muse of comedy {see also planet (18)}. Thalia is also one of the three Graces, daughters of Venus by Jupiter or Bacchus {see planet (2063)}. The other Graces are Euphrosyne and Aglaja {see planets (31) and (47)}. (H 4)
Named by W. Bishop at whose private observatory the planet was discovered (AN 35, 380 (1852)).
Discovered on 15-12-1852 in London by Hind, J. R. | ||
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